The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt ,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world
- 1. The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind
- 2. The other Doctor Shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a laissez-faire laboratory
- 3. States of shock : the bloody birth of the counterrevolution
- 4. Cleaning the slate : terror does its work
- 5. "Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes
- 6. Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies
- 7. The new Doctor Shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship
- 8. Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy
- 9. Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China
- 10. Democracy born in chains : South Africa's constricted freedom
- 11. Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"
- 12. The capitalist Id : Russia and the new era of the boor market
- 13. Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of the second Berlin Wall"
- 14. Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the Homeland security bubble
- 15. A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway
- 16. Erasing Iraq : in search of a "model" for the Middle East
- 17. Ideological blowback : a very capitalist disaster
- 18. Full circle : from blank slate to scorched earth
- 19. Blanking the beach : "the second tsunami"
- 20. Disaster apartheid : a world of green zones and red zones
- 21. Losing the peace incentive : Israel as warning
- Conclusion : shock wears off : the rise of people's reconstruction.